Ventured out to Soonchunhwang Hospital and scheduled the full “well being” series of exams. I did this a couple of years ago, and to the extent a medical process can be cool, this pretty much is. It’s basically an assembly line of check-up stations (chest x-ray, hearing, vision, etc) and some more intensive, make that invasive, procedures like an endoscopy.
Jee Yeun is doing the full monty as well. We like to go at this time of year to take advantage of “sale” offered by the hospital this time year. My total cost will be around $900. provided they don’t find anything wrong with me. The same tests and procedures in the USA would run several time mores, plus it would be a pain in the ass since I’d have to spend several days in several places to get everything done.
Anyway, that’s my big news.
May it all go well!
That’s one thing I argue with the wife about with the differences in medical care here in the US and Korea. She thinks the doc should just do all the tests, X-rays, MRIs what ever she wants, ‘just to check’ and have Tri and Care pay for it. “Thats the way we do it in Korea”…I try to convince myself she’s not a hypochondriac.
Jeff, actually a focus of preventative makes more sense and is more cost effective than treating the disease after the fact. I don’t understand why it is so much cheaper here in Korea, but they are set up for it. I understand Korean employees are required to do this full medical screen annually.